Install Of New Graphicks Card
Jul 24, 2008
i have found lots of usefull tips and tutorials here.I have tryd to look for a guide on what to do when changing graphicks card and the right order to do it,i am upgrading my system and im hoping for smooth sailing with drivers and software.
My system:Vista ultimate 64 sp1, Asus striker 2 extreem 790i ultra sli,Q6600@ 2,4Ghz ,Gainward 8600gt 256mb 2pice in sli ,OCZ ddr3 pc12800 2x2gb (7,7,7,7,20) , Nort-Q 1000w , Sb s-ata 2x160gb raid striped , sb 1x320gb s-ata storage disk, Asus 22" lcd 1680x1050. I am upgrading those 2 x 8600gt 256 with 2 x 9800gtx 512 and also canging monitor
My installation is relative fresch and clean one week old,full vista sp1 with all updates exept the S-ata drivers on ms update, i have choosen not to use those since the ones i have work just fine,drivers on mobo cd and updated bios to the latest official. latest WHQL drivers from Nvidia 8xxx series.and office xp pro with powerpoint sp3 full updated. System running fine and stable, i have seen bsod one time during install of some Asus system monitoring software so i uninstalled it.And its stable again. But what schould be the first thing for me to do now,Uninstall old graphicks drivers and switch cards, boot up and istall new drivers and finnish,is that all or ?
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Aug 27, 2008
I have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT video card installed on my new HP Pavillion dv7 1034ca laptop. It came with Vista Home Premium. So the first thing I did was intall Vista Ultimate. When I did that, the resolution was reset to 800x600. I reinstalled all the drivers, including the one for the NVIDIA card. When I went to change the resolution, I noticed that the highest I could go was 1440x900. Which is ok but I remember being able to go to a higher resolution when I had Vista Home Premium installed. The reason why I remember is because my icons are a bit larger now than they were before. What's bad is that 1440x900 is the highest I can go. What happened to my higher resolution?
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Dec 24, 2009
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Jul 11, 2009
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Do you know how to install a Graphic card EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 8400 in a PC running Vista 32x? So far I've spent two weeks looking a solution but it seems almost imposible. When I try to install the card always get an ansewr saying that system could not find any driver for this hardware. This is what I have done:
1. clear MOS and update it
2. try almost every driver from mobo manufacturer (Biostar pm4900), form NVIDIA, from EVGA.
3. set PCI priority in Bios
4. unistall VGA drivers for the Moboard.
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Jun 24, 2009
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Aug 16, 2009
the game has installed but once tryin to load it says this
Error3:
Your system does not meet the minimum requirements for ( The game) (suberror 7). Your video card must support hardware acceleration and have at least 15 megabytes of video Ram available. i fyour video card doesnt support compressed textures it must have at least 64 megabytes if video RAM available.
I have tried going into the display settings and advanced settings then troubleshooting but my computer does not allow me to change it as the icon is grayed out.
the details of my graphics card are
operating system: windows vista tm home premium (6.0, build 6001)
manufacturer: Advent
Model: QC8003
processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (4 CPUs),
2.3ghz
Memory : 8124MB RAM
Page file: 1996MB used, 14303MB available
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Mar 23, 2008
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